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10 Best Revision Apps To Help You Ace Your Exams. By Nicholas Fearn If you're a student, you’ll find that it’s that time of year again: exams season. It's tough and a tad depressing, but in order to succeed, you need to do plenty of revision - without procrastinating or falling asleep. However, that doesn't necessarily visiting your local library to get hold of some dusty, old books. Instead, you can make things easier and get those As by making the most of these awesome apps. They’re just sitting there, waiting to be downloaded, after all. Revision App (Android and iOS, free) Perhaps the most appropriately named revision app out there is, indeed, the Revision App. What’s great about the app is the fact that you can tailour it to your needs and study level. Android | iOS Remember the Milk (Android and iOS, free) One of the frustrations of revision is making sure you actually revise and don’t end up procrastinating. Android | iOS iMindMap (Android and iOS, free) The way you revise very much depends on you, as a person, and your preferences.

iOS. Top Note-Taking and Revision Tips: Ace Your Exams with the Help of This Visual Guide. We've shared a few tips about exams and revision before, including advice on how to make better guesses on multiple choice tests and why cramming for exams doesn't work. Related: The Ultimate Guide to Making and Saving Money as a Student With exam season about to get into full swing, this handy infographic from student accommodation provider WBSA is a nice visual guide to brush on your note-taking and revision strategy. It outlines a few popular note-taking methods, and reminds you that handwritten notes tend to offer higher information retention, compared to digitally taken notes. There's also some tips for reviewing notes after lectures, seminars, and study sessions. Happy revising and good luck!

Similar: A Student's Guide to Getting Cheap Home Broadband [via WBSA] Header image by pedrosek. TranscriptFeynman.pdf. Learn Faster with The Feynman Technique. Revision Strategies | Study Skills | University of Manchester. We all understand the importance of revision. Most work hard at it, but we don't always work well at it. As with any other aspect of your studies, you need to organise your time and plan your revision in advance. The main purposes of revision are: to understand the topic for which you are sitting an exam to commit what you have learnt and understood to memory to practice planning and writing answers to questions To enable you to do this, you will need to organise your notes, essays, handouts etc. into a convenient and coherent set of material. This section includes advice on: making a revision plan how to revise revising all year round Making a Revision Plan As always, planning is key. Create a Revision Timetable You should start revising at least five or six weeks before your exams are due to start.

How to Revise There are three key revision methods: note-taking/note-making memorising drafting model answers We will look at each of these in turn: 1. 2. 2. See How to Use Past Papers. FlashCards. Anki - friendly, intelligent flashcards. Revunote for Evernote Turns Your Android Device Into a Learning and Memorisation Tool | Lifehacker UK.